Around the World with Willy Fog

Around the World with Willy Fog
SpanishLa vuelta al mundo de Willy Fog
GenreAdventure
Based onAround the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Developed byClaudio Biern Boyd
Theme music composerGuido and Maurizio De Angelis
Opening theme"La vuelta al mundo de Willy Fog" by Mocedades
Ending theme"Sílbame" by Mocedades
Country of originSpain
Original languageSpanish
No. of episodes26 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time26 mins
Production companies
Original release
NetworkTVE1
Release8 January (1984-01-08) –
15 July 1984 (1984-07-15)
Related
Willy Fog 2 (1994–95)
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Around the World with Willy Fog (Spanish: La vuelta al mundo de Willy Fog) is a Spanish animated television adaptation of the 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. It was produced by Spanish studio BRB Internacional and Televisión Española, with animation by Japanese studio Nippon Animation, and was first broadcast on TVE1 weekly in 1984.[1][2]

Jules Verne's original characters are depicted as animals in the series.[3] The core trio are all felines being pursued by three canine foes. Willy Fog (Phileas Fogg in the original book) is depicted as a lion, while Rigodon (Passepartout) is a cat, and Romy (Aouda) is a panther.[4]

An English dub of the series was directed by Tom Wyner, which featured the voices of Cam Clarke (Rigodon), Gregory Snegoff (Inspector Dix), Steve Kramer (Constable Bully), Rebecca Forstadt (Romy), and Mike Reynolds (additional voices). It was broadcast on the BBC in the United Kingdom in 1984 and on RTÉ in Ireland.[5] The series was also dubbed into Japanese and aired on Japan's TV Asahi in 1987, where it was titled Anime Around the World in 80 Days (アニメ80日間世界一周, Anime Hachijūnichikan Sekai Isshū).

A sequel series, Willy Fog 2 (1993), adapts Verne's novels Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. A theatrical musical show was produced in Spain in 2008 in celebration of its 25th anniversary.[6]

  1. ^ "8 January 1984 TV guide". ABC (in Spanish). 8 January 1984. p. 102. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
  2. ^ "15 July 1984 TV guide". ABC (in Spanish). 15 July 1984. p. 100. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
  3. ^ Hernández-Pérez, Manuel (24 June 2019). Japanese Media Cultures in Japan and Abroad: Transnational Consumption of Manga, Anime, and Media-Mixes. MDPI. ISBN 9783039210084 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Around the World with Willy Fog official flyer" (PDF). brb.es. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 June 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  5. ^ "Teatrohaagen". Teatrohaagen-dazs.es. Archived from the original on 26 February 2009. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  6. ^ "ズバット車買取比較 無知な人でも中古車が高く売れる場所". Willyfogelmusical.com. Archived from the original on 9 December 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2015.

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